![]() ![]() After all, as he acknowledges, many people with dyslexia do not overcome their disability a “remarkable number” of them end up in prison. But at times, Gladwell hypes the virtues of “desirable difficulties,” the forces arrayed against marginal and damaged individuals, and their capacity to create the conditions that will lead to success. And that the lawyer David Boies and Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn have compensated for their dyslexia by learning to listen, focus, reduce arguments to their essences, and take risks.įair enough. Gladwell reminds us that underdogs have won wars against “superpowers” (in Vietnam and Afghanistan, for example) by adopting guerrilla tactics, including terrorism. In “David and Goliath,” however, his zeal to trumpet the “advantages” of physical disabilities, suffering, discrimination and adversity leads to exaggerated and unjustifiable claims. Gladwell is a gifted storyteller and his accounts of basketball strategy, cancer research, dyslexia, choosing the right college, affirmative action in law schools, losing a parent, the impact of “remote misses” in the bombing of London, and resisting the Nazis are informative and often compelling. In “David and Goliath,” Malcolm Gladwell, the clever and counterintuitive author of “The Tipping Point,” “Blink” and “Outliers,” argues that the powerful are not as powerful as they seem and that being an underdog can open doors, create opportunities and make possible what had been deemed unthinkable. ![]()
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